Until last Friday David Campbell was the the transport minister for New South Wales. He has become the latest politician to transgress a public morality upheld by journalists (although not always practised by them). Mr Campbell was spotted by a Channel 7 camera crew leaving a gay sauna in Sydney and has resigned his post to spend time with his traumatised family. Having worked for a few politicians, I know that they are human beings (sometimes all too human) and Campbell and his family will no doubt be suffering terrible private grief alongside public humiliation. But the media hysteria about this story has made me wonder again whether politicians deserve a private life when they are the ones who help set the public morality through the laws they have the power to determine. The reason why the media are in a state of hysteria, is because this incident… Read more